Former Chicago Mayor Daley hospitalized

Feb. 1, 2014
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Former Chicago Mayor Richard Daley places his cap over his heart during the national anthem before a baseball game between the Chicago White Sox and the Toronto Blue Jays. Daley was hospitalized Jan. 31 after feeling ill upon returning to Chicago from a business trip in Arizona. / Charles Rex Arbogast, AP

by Matt Krantz, USA TODAY

by Matt Krantz, USA TODAY

Richard Daley, a former mayor of Chicago, checked into the intensive care area of a hospital today after returning from a trip.

Daley, 71, told people he was with at a conference in Arizona that he was not feeling well, according to The Associated Press. The trip was connected with Daley's work for law firm Katten Muchin Rosenman, his spokeswoman Jackie Heard told the AP.

Upon returning to Chicago from Arizona, Daley's family called for an ambulance to transport Daley to Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Daley remained in the hospital's ICU Saturday for monitoring, according to a statement from the family obtained by the AP.

Daley's illness comes just after his nephew entered a guilty plea for involuntary manslaughter in the 2004 death of a man following a skirmish.

This isn't Daley's only medical scare. He has been in the hospital at least twice since 2000, the AP says, because of chest pains.

Daley holds the record as the longest-serving mayor of the Windy City, at 22 years.